Characters in Postern of Fate

Supporting characters

• Tuppence Beresford

  Curious and irrepressible even in old age, she treats the buried mystery as a puzzle worth chasing for its own sake.

  Also in By the Pricking of My Thumbs, Partners in Crime

• Tommy Beresford

  Steadier and more cautious than his wife, he works the case through old intelligence contacts while worrying for her safety.

  Also in The Secret Adversary, By the Pricking of My Thumbs, Partners in Crime

• Albert

  A long-serving widower who cooks, keeps house, and remains fiercely loyal, stepping in at a critical moment.

  Also in Partners in Crime

• Hannibal

  Intensely protective of his owners, he is given his own point-of-view passages and plays a decisive part in the danger that follows.

• Mary Jordan

  An au-pair who died in the house years before and was rumoured to have been an enemy agent; the coded message insists her death was not natural.

• Colonel Pikeaway

  A recurring Christie spymaster who connects the village's past to wider matters of national security.

• Mr Robinson

  The large, yellow-faced financier-cum-operative from earlier Christie novels, working quietly behind the scenes.

• Isaac Bodlicott

  A talkative old villager whose memories of the past prove more dangerous than they first seem.